Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-07-08
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Princeton, w. Va.
Governor Lee addressed Tammany
Hall, New York, on the 4th.
The News acknowledges receipt Of
maps &c. from the N. & w. r. r.
Groseclose Bros. have removed
their cav mill from the East End.
Ed. Holly's horn will be missed
when next the SHOWS begin to fall.
Col. Graham of Philadelphia is
again in the city after y long alb.
sence.
Jny Gould. in the late stock excite.
ment, beat his friend Field out of
S2,OOO,OOO.
Mr.. james Browning was taken
ill at the .Central,o Sunday ana
stopped there several days.
The Peabody Normal Institute at
Wytheyille for colored teacbers will
begin the 10Th of July and continue
four weeks.
The commission TO assess damages
to property holders along the line of
the CIV. Railroad have been hard at
it oil week.
Among the graduates of this year
from the Villa Maria ut Abingdon
we note the namo of Miss Mamie
Doak of this county.
An order for ten new engines for
the Clinch Valley Div, of the N. s.
w. r. r., has been received at the
Roanoke Machine Works.
The Board of Directors of Tazewell
High School, will meet on Monday
for the purpose ofeletcing Principal
and assistants for next session:
Several persons from Jefferson
Vile will attend the District Con.
ference of the NJ. E. church, at
Princeton, Saturday and Sunday.
Ten Brock, tile famous Kentucky
horse, died suddenly last Tuesday
of appoplexy. Fifteen thousand
dollars had recently been refused
for him.. tA lNN
Mrs. S. G. Painter and daughters
have returned to their home-Ma-
rion, We know several young men
who were sorry to see the young
ladies depart. 7,
The new city government of Pc
caiontas is making good it's prom
Use to clean out the superabundance
of human filth that has been &C.
cumulating there.
The celebration of the 4th at Cen
trail was quite large sized affair,
$500 people were in attendance,
and the trains could not take all
WHO wished to 60
Miss Lucille Spindle, whose bright
smile has helped to enliven our so.
c;al circle for some weeks left Mon
day for her horne in Christiansburg.
called by the severe illness of her
little sister.
Mrs. Samuel L. Morrison, of Big
Moccasin Gap, Scott Co, is paying
her sisters ~ protracted visit at
Greenwood" Mrs. Morrison is no
stranger here having taught many
Of our young people. ss
Mrs, Bowman left this morning
for saa&Ilottsville, to join her sisters
and other refis%as sssse.s sci a. family re.
union, after many years .of. sep.ffs..
ton, She will return to her home
in New Orleans 1st Aug.
A report comes thatthe Pocahon.
tas Coal Company has sold its en-
tire property to Philadelphia syn
dictate. The same report is to. the
effect that the old company will
open mines and erect ovens in Wise
county.
Peyton S. Coles, Past Grand Mas
ter Of Masons in Virginia, Past Grand
High Priest, and Past Grand Com
mander of knights Templar, and one
-ofthe most prominent. Masons i'll the
United States, died at his home, in
Albernarle county, about thirteen
miles from Charlottesville. ''s
1How does it happen that there
are SO many old maids among the
school teacbersfs asked a reporter
ola teacher the other day, "Be.
cause school teachers are, as a rule,
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